cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall main.c

Andrey Chernov ache at FreeBSD.org
Tue May 1 00:28:20 UTC 2007


On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 04:02:42AM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 06:57:17PM -0400, David Schultz wrote:
> > I think Alfred is absolutely right, and this is a pretty major
> > POLA violation. 
> 
> That's -current for. Do you suggest to wait yet more N years to commit 
> exact that stuff?

Speaking about POLA, POLA says that valid call to setenv f.e. is in form
setenv("name", "value", 1);
it does not says that hacks like
setenv("name=value", "value", 1);
should be allowed and works.

Moreover, putenv() isn't BSD own function, and was incorrectly implemented 
initially in BSD. BSD implementation just violates original POLA for 
putenv() all other use.

Insisting to keep bug-to-bug compatibility forever leads to nowhere.
And increase porting efforts greately.

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